NO BUSH NUKES!.............Part 1

STOP BUSH ADMINISTRATION FROM PREEMPTIVE NUCLEAR ATTACKS!

Eisenhower was a strong man which made him a powerful leader both as a general in Europe during WWII and as President of the United States. He did not swagger because he did not pretend. He did not smirk because his self-respect was based on respecting others. He was an introspective, educated man who continued to learn from life's experiences. A wise leader who carefully weighed each decision, "Ike" took responsibility for his actions and stood the consequences.

Because he loved his country and abhorred war, Dwight D. Eisenhower, as part of his legacy, left America two vital warnings. He warned us against the rise of an American "military industrial complex" and he warned that nuclear proliferation would lead to global nuclear war. Unfortunately, President Eisenhower's grave warnings have been ignored.

Although Eisenhower was able to work with other nations to prevent nuclear conflict on a global scale during his two terms as president, he was not able to stop the steady growth of a self-serving military industrial complex in his own country. During the sixty years following WWII, the American military industrial complex has grown into a man-eating monster much like the out-of-control plant that occupies the center stage in the play, The Little Shop of Horrors.

Today, its demanding "FEED ME!" drives a failing American foreign policy dependent on the intertwined concepts of preemptive war and perpetual war. Currently, the Pentagon, under the influence of both American weapons manufacturers and the belligerent neoconservative leadership of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, has scuttled the highly successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The new U.S. nuclear weapons doctrine drafted by the U.S. Defense Department allows the United States to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states and to use them preemptively. America has chosen to no longer lead by example or in conjunction with the international community. It has decided instead in favor of absolute domination enforced by the threat of nuclear attack. The maverick American regime has embraced the role of a global tyrant whose power rests in the use of nuclear terror. There is no threat as potent as the destruction of all life on Earth by the use of nuclear weapons.

I am a grandmother. I have no desire to NUKE someone else's grandchild in some other country. I also don't want my loved ones to be vaporized or succumb to radiation sickness. There is absolutely no justification for the use of catastrophic weaponry, ever. They are madmen, these weak, ignorant creatures who desire profit, power, and personal political gratification. We must drive them from power to protect the Earth and the life that flourishes upon it.

More in Part 2
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